The winners of our competition, The Weekend Congress at 3pm on Friday 21 November, will win a Luxury Chess Set
Here is the Sign up Link with Mind Sports International
Good Luck !!
Our full selection of Themed Chess Sets are back in stock and ready for Christmas shoppers to enjoy. All of the pictures in this post will link you over to the full pages on our website, where they are also many more themed sets to look at, including the Battle of Waterloo, The Crusades and Egyptian themed chess sets.
Possibly our most popular is this set of Sherlock Holmes Chessmen on a rich mahogany chess board.
These fantastic Celts Vs Viking Chessmen are some of the most colourful in the Regency Chess Collection of themed chess sets.
The commemorative chess pieces of her majesty’s Diamond Jubilee sell especially well in the United States.
Zues is the King alongside his daughter Aphrodite in this God of Mythology themed set.
Secretive mask from throughout history are the focus here, all of which are placed on our finest 19 inch chess board.
Canterbury Cathedral is the running theme in this set of Medieval chess pieces.
I am writing today on a muggy day in Frome, Somerset, with the sun’s warmth thickening the air through a blanket of white clouds. A bit sticky, in other words.
Last month, when the sun was freer, we received a shipment from Florence, Italy, where some old friends had decided to do something pretty remarkable. For a number of years now we have been working with ITALFAMA and have always been impressed with their chess products. In Tuscany, for more than 30 years, their craftsmen have been making chess pieces from unique moulds that are unavailable anywhere else in the world.
The exclusivity is of course something that appeals to us, but there is a real sense, also, that this is a company that really makes great products. When it comes to chess pieces they specialize in metal, creating some amazing casted chessmen that we proudly sell here at Regency Chess.
However, when the most recent order came in even our delivery coordinator, John, who has plenty of experience with ITALFAMA products, was fascinated by what they had sent.
The first product was the San Severeo Chess Set, which features Chess Pieces made of Gold and Silver, and a stunning board made of oak. The fact that the pieces cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world was almost besides the point -they are made out of gold and silver- with an oak midriff like nothing any of us had seen before.
And, although the San Severeo Chess Set caught the eye, it was another sense that the Modica Set first affected.
As it was removed from the box this Italian chess board filled the room with a heartening scent of real leather. In Florence the artisans at Italfama had stitched together an exceptional chess board that, when it comes to this famous company, is reliably unique. Deciding to match it with 3 inch Modica Rosewood Chess Pieces wasn’t a bad idea either. So we sent an example of these products off to our photographer in Bath, who came back to us with some fantastic pictures for the website soon after.
Both sets have already sold well, in Europe and the UK, and we are expecting that to continue as Christmas draws ever closer. (last time I will mention Christmas, promise)
Closer still, though, is the continuously enhanced sense that great relationships produce great products. Our work alongside ITALFAMA is the perfect example of this and we look forward to it continuing past this Christmas (sorry! one last mention) and many more. If you would like to take a sneaky look at some other Italian-made chess products you can click on these links.
17 Inch Briarwood and Elmwood Luxury Chess Board
Metal Chessmen 20 Inch Lacquered Red Erable Luxury Chess Board
We recently sold one of our tournament grade plastic chess sets to Paul Salmon, the talented photographer. He was so impressed with the quality of these pieces that he very kindly decided to use them for some superb creative shots.
We are delighted to announce that due to massive bulk ordering capabilities we are now offering all the popular tournament grade chess equipment at fantastic prices. We have also increased our range of products to include demonstration boards and score books. Until recently we had been offering bulk deal product listings on the site. For example, a listing for forty sets of tournament chessmen at a substantial discount. This however meant that we were showing a vast array of listings, often for the same product but in varying quantities.
We have now made things simpler
Now you will find all of our tournament chess equipment listed as separate listings which will make choosing much easier. The best bit is that the more quantity you decide to buy the cheaper it gets.
This week http://chess-links.org released a list of the worlds top 100 chess websites listed by popularity. These rankings came from the well respected traffic analysis site Alexa and show the top one hundred chess websites in the world. We were delighted to see our very own regencychess.co.uk site in position 95.
Not surprising chess.com was at number one, with plenty of other extremely well known sites also featuring near the top. The list can be viewed here. If you’re struggling to find your own site in the top one hundred there is a link near the top of the page to extend the list to the whole five hundred.